Pamyat Rides in Moscow
Not so long ago, one of the favorite slogans of the Spartacist League (SL) was ‘‘The Klan Doesn’t Ride in Moscow!’’ It was intended to cut against anti-Sovietism among sectors of the American population...
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Fake-Trotskyists Make Fake Offer
On SL/PDC ‘Brigade’ for Kabul Reprinted below is a letter from the Bolshevik Tendency to the Spartacist League regarding a proposal by the SL’s Partisan Defense Committee to organize a combat brigade for Afghanistan:...
Tony Cliff’s Family Tree
The largest ‘‘state capitalist’’ group claiming some connection to Trotskyism is the British-based Socialist Workers Party (SWP/B) headed by Tony Cliff. The founders of the SWP/B deserted the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s...
On the Nature of the USSR
BT Debates LRP The Bolshevik Tendency (BT) and the League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) held a public debate on the Russian question on December 10 1988, in New York City. Approximately forty people...
The Decline of the Printers Union
Lessons For The U.S. Labor Movement The strike at the San Francisco Progress is just the latest in a long series of attacks on the living standards of American workers in the print trades....
Militant Printer’s Class-Struggle Program
Reprinted below is the program of Militant Printer which was published in the first issue of the newsletter, 15 July 1983: The program of ‘‘Militant Printer’’ is first and foremost for a break with...
S.F. Progress Plundered
‘No Pay, No Work!’: Workers Occupy Plant Frank Lorenzo’s much-publicized corporate union-busting at Eastern Airlines, which led to the recent strike of machinists and pilots, is representative of a host of smaller battles being...
Perestroika: A Pandora’s Box
World Revolution—Not ‘Market Socialism’ Ronald Reagan, flying into retirement on 20 January, boasted to reporters on board his plane that he could go down in history as the president who won the Cold War....
Marxism and the ecological crisis
On Tuesday 9 June (6pm British time) a Bolshevik Tendency supporter is presenting at an online meeting outlining how environmental concerns were integral to the political thinking of Marx and Engels and what that...
COVID-19 and the law of value
In this interview by fellow Marxist Michael Roberts, Murray Smith explains the relevance of the law of value, the law of capitalist accumulation and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and...